Foto yang memenangkan hadiah tersebut menampilkan peristiwa tragedi kemanusiaan. Seorang anak berumur sekitar 7 tahunan menangis berdiri, dikelilingi mayat-mayat yang bergelimpangan. Darah bersimbah di mana-mana, sementara lutut si gadis pun terlihat berdarah.

Serangan itu sendiri terjadi di Afganistan. Sebuah negara mayoritas muslim yang dibenci seluruh dunia dengan stigma terorisme. Tidak ada yang peduli bagaimana nasib mereka, termasuk media-media barat. Stigma itu kembali tertuang pada berita sampah yang dapat Anda lihat pada tautan berikut:

http://inet.detik.com/read/2012/04/18/123219/1895214/1277/foto-memilukan-gadis-afghanistan-diganjar-pulitzer-2012

Sampah karena berita itu bertendensi datar. Menceritakan bagaimana kapan foto tersebut tercipta, saat sedang apa, dan siapa wartawan yang mengambil. Tidak ada komentar sama sekali mengenai foto yang melanggar batas kemanusiaan tersebut.

Diksi (pilihan kata) yang menunjukkan kesimpatikan cuma terdapat pada judul, yakni memilukan. Paragraf pertama terdapat kata bom mematikan. Selebihnya berita ini cuma menceritakan siapa dan kapan foto itu diambil, jumlah hadiah yang diperoleh, serta para nominator untuk karya foto lain.

Jikalau Anda mengatakan bahwa berita di detik tersebut sekedar mencoba netral, bolehkah saya pertanyakan bagaimana rasa kemanusiaan versi Anda? Atau terserah jika Anda menuduh saya anti-Yahudi atau Amrik atau apalah, namun bagaimana jika kejadian tersebut menimpa Anda?

The loneliest people were the one who always spoke the truth

Many people in Jakarta complaining about the water service in jakarta. Starting from the price, bad service, and the contract between country water company (PAM) and it’s private partner company, Palyja and Aetra. The contract it self was started in 1997.

Until end of 2010, PAM should bear the loss Rp 610 miliar and debt Rp 530 miliar. The company it self gain minus equity about Rp 985,72 miliar. The PAM continues to lose money, they were unable to get some profit because according to contract, the privat company partner ask for increase profit for each six month. Instead gain some profit, PAM should give it’s profit to it’s Partners.

Because of this contract, Palyja and Aetra (the private company partner) always gain profit. Until June 2011, Palyja gain net profit about Rp 119,48 miliar. Palyja also has retained earnings amounting to Rp 898.12 miliar. Total income is almost half of Palyja’s assets, Rp1,82 triliun.

The Aetra it self has good performance. First 3 months in 2011 (first quarterly), this company gain net profit Rp 27,90 miliar. This profit increase according in same periode last year which about Rp 16,43 miliar. This year Aetra also have paid the investors dividend about Rp 200 miliar.

since the beginning of this contract is detrimental to the company. And if the contract isn’t change, PAM condition will getting worst and will assume debt about Rp 18,2 triliun in end of contract periode (year 2022). The company must take back and regain profit, and it start with stopping the contract with those capitalism company.

• Renewal energy from LIPI (Dedy Mizwar and Komarudin Hidayat).
• BOS and PAUD program from Department of Education and Culture.
• 54th years of Pertamina – spread energy into remote area.
• Social Department for “Who Are You? (we are same)”.
• BNPT for counter terorism (haha, watch Zeitgeist or Arrivals on Youtube for this).
• Energy and Mineral Source (ESDM) for not using the subsidize gas.

Maybe you don’t aware about this. Or, you’ll say that I’m very tendentious for writing this post. I tell you, this is absolutely waste money program in end of the year. Those ads were playing everyday in TV station. You wouldn’t see it often in early year.

Why? Enjoy Endonezwah then, the Republic of Liar. Enough said.

I’m still fully laugh of loud reading this news article. The increasing number of PNS (country labour) at election season isn’t surprising at all. Many of the employee is unprofessional and untrained. Not only the number increased, the budget for kind of “tunjangan” for those PNS also increased. No wonder after the election period end, many PNS receive pay cuts for their salary.

Here another laugh of loud news article. Yes it is still not surprising at all. We know how SBY and Budiono style running these country. They claim to do economy for the poor, but in fact they were neoliberal activist. The neolib economic style is a request from uncle SAM. The involvement of America in this country show us one thing, we (Indonesia) are not sovereign at all.

Both of those news article can be more read here:

• DPR Penasaran Jumlah PNS Membengkak Pasca Pemilu
• WikiLeaks Sebut Sejumlah Menteri SBY Sekutu AS

Last word for this,
“kemane aje lu??”

Pada event kemerdekaan kali ini, beberapa status teman saya di Facebook memiliki kesamaan suara, yakni berbagai ketimpangan yang ada di negeri ini. Hentikan jargon-jargon tidak nasionalis atau tidak cinta tanah air dan sebagainya ketika muncul suara sumbang. Ini adalah kritik, sekaligus suara yang memaparkan realitas negeri Indonesia yang sedang tercabik.

Banyaknya masyarakat di perbatasan yang lebih memilih menjadi warga negara asing tentunya sangat menyakitkan hati. Begitu pula dengan pengibaran bendera RMS di event 17 Agustus kemarin. Sebelum revolusi terjadi dan kian menggejala, Pemerintah sekarang harus lebih cerdas dan benar-benar berlaku adil. Demi terwujudnya bangsa Indonesia yang lebih baik dan disegani.

1. Gain and loss of meaning.
   With the advent of personal computers, an obvious example of a word that has gained a meaning is mouse. A word which has lost a meaning is direction. In Jane Austen’s day, one of the meanings of direction was what we now call address (e.g. on an envelope). This represents a concomitant gain for the word address. A new meaning is frequently a metaphoric or metonymic extension from an earlier meaning.
2. Change of default meaning.
   A primary meaning may become secondary. A hundred years ago the primary meaning of expire was ‘die’. This meaning still exists but it is somewhat archaic. The primary meaning now is ‘come to the end of a period of validity’.
3. Semantic drift
   As the details of everyday life change gradually, there is often a gradual shift in the meanings of words. One such shift is a change in the prototype of a category. Think of the gradual change in the prototype of a weapon or vehicle over the centuries.
4. Specialization and generalization
   These terms refer to the widening or narrowing of category boundaries. Specialization is illustrated by doctor, which at one time meant simply ‘teacher’ or ‘learned person’. An example of generalization is actor, which originally denoted only male thespians, but is now used without discrimination of gender.
5. Pejoration and amelioration
   Words which originally expressed a positive or neutral attitude sometimes come to be derogatory, or at least express a negative judgment. One example of this is interfere, which originally meant simply ‘intervene’, without the negative overtones it now has. Another example is typical in Isn’t that just typical? Historically, words referring to women have been particularly prone to pejoration: mistress, madam, working girl. Change in the opposite direction, known as amelioration, is somewhat rarer; perhaps the development of queen from an earlier form meaning simply ‘woman’ or ‘wife’ is an example, although this word has also undergone pejoration at various times. Another example is sturdy, which had a pejorative meaning of ‘reckless, violent, obstinate’, but now has a positive meaning.
6. Bleaching
   This refers to a loss of meaning, as with, for example, make in to make a phone call, where the original meaning of ‘construct’ has virtually disappeared, leaving only something like ‘do something’. The term also applies to a weakening of meaning, as with words such as awful, terrible, fantastic.

Biaya yang dikeluarkan untuk infrastruktur website saja bisa lebih dari Rp.50rb, dengan rincian sebagai berikut:

• Domain untuk 1 tahun (nama situs) Rp.100rb
• Hosting untuk 1 tahun (paket shared standar bukan reseller) Rp.200rb
• Koneksi internet untuk meng-upload file-file website, termasuk CMS Rp.100rb (tentative, bisa lebih, tergantung projek dan klien)
• Biaya listrik untuk kerja Rp.100rb (tentative, bisa lebih, tergantung projek dan klien)

Dari situ kita bisa lihat bahwa paling tidak untuk infrastruktur pembuatan website saja bisa kena charge Rp.500rb.

Terakhir harga kreativitas Anda dalam membuat desain dan membuat rancangan program.

• Tim desain Rp.xxxxxxx
• Tim programer (coding web) Rp.xxxxxxx

Semuanya tergantung bagaimana servis dan fasilitas yang Anda berikan bagi klien Anda.

• Konfigurasi email dengan nama domain Anda.
• Optimalisasi situs di situs mesin pencarian.
• Pemeliharaan backup berkala dan recovery.

Jangan kaget jika proyek website bisa mencapai puluhan juta. Untuk masyarakat Indonesia sendiri memang doyan yang murah meriah. Bayar murah, tapi minta fasilitas ini itu. Jangan heran jika banyak programmer lebih memilih untuk mencari klien dari luar negeri menggunakan jasa website auction job bagi para freelancer (semisal Odesk.com) ketimbang klien dari dalam negeri.

Masih mau pakai yang Rp.50rb?

Berikut konsekuensinya.

• Hosting sering down, website tidak aksesibel karena menggunakan service gratisan atau reseller oversell.
• Terkait point pertama, karena situs sering down, pencarian jadi jelek di index situs pencarian.
• Domain gratisan, tidak ada kepastian milik Anda 100%. Bisa hilang sewaktu-waktu.
• Tidak ada optimalisasi web, karena sifatnya fasilitas standar yang hanya sekedar dipasang.
• Garansi konten yang sudah susah payah Anda buat??

Higher traffic mean higher visitor. Put some ads, people click it, money comes easily into their account. They claimed to be a internet marketer, but they are nothing more than a trickster. Worse, some of them use the free service to do those spamming activity. That’s why Google banned free (sub) domain services, such www.co.cc and www.co.tv.

As a regular user, it doesn’t mean we are weak. We can fight back, and together as a community we can change it. I will show you how to fight those “internet marketer” scammer.

1. Click as many ads (adsense kinda type) on their site. Google will detect it as fraud click and their account will be ban.
2. Submit their site’s as spam using Google spam report.
3. Using firefox to browse the net? You can use Greasemonkey add-ons and install Google Hit Hider by Domain script. You can block a scam site’s in Google SERP.

Bukan jasa kami yang jelek, tapi..

KOMPUTER ANDA BANYAK VIRUSNYA

“wkwkwkwk… lu pakek aja tuh modem2 GSM ancur, tetep masih mending punya gw”

Kini ekspetasi masyarakat Indonesia dipompa kembali dengan munculnya bocah-bocah jenius di bidang IT. Mereka berhasil membuat aplikasi web jejaring sosial semacam Facebook dan aplikasi keamanan antivirus. Predikat apalagi yang patut disematkan pada bocah-bocah di bawah usia SMP tersebut selain anak jenius. Namun, kenyataan pahit segera terkuak. Program-program mereka merupakan modifikasi dari aplikasi berlisensi FLOS yang bersifat gratis dengan kode pengembangan terlampir.

Kalau boleh menjustifikasi, siapa yang bodoh dalam hal ini? Pelaku tindakan plagiatnya kah? Media yang mengeksposnya kah? Atau pemerintah yang ikut mendukung mereka?